Charan Ranganath

they're functioning at equal levels it's not like the highly superior people are limitless and they're you know rich and famous and yeah you can find some rich and famous people with h that but for the most part they're just like everybody else in terms of their daily life they didn't perform better in school they didn't do you know live out some amazing experiences that nobody else would have so we don't know enough about what makes the brains different but

it may be something related in my opinion, and this is just purely opinion. It may be something to do with the way people think about what's interesting to them and the way they build their knowledge. So for instance, there's all this data, uh, not all this data. There's all these videos of LeBron James. Uh, I mentioned him in my book and I also did an interview with the NBA about this.

it may be something related in my opinion, and this is just purely opinion. It may be something to do with the way people think about what's interesting to them and the way they build their knowledge. So for instance, there's all this data, uh, not all this data. There's all these videos of LeBron James. Uh, I mentioned him in my book and I also did an interview with the NBA about this.

it may be something related in my opinion, and this is just purely opinion. It may be something to do with the way people think about what's interesting to them and the way they build their knowledge. So for instance, there's all this data, uh, not all this data. There's all these videos of LeBron James. Uh, I mentioned him in my book and I also did an interview with the NBA about this.

And basically, uh, LeBron has this extraordinary memory for basketball games. He could talk about a game that he played in long ago and describe plays in that game, and the plays go point by point with a video that you could sync up to what he's saying. I mean, it's just... And you think about how quickly that information is going by him and how hard it would be to...

And basically, uh, LeBron has this extraordinary memory for basketball games. He could talk about a game that he played in long ago and describe plays in that game, and the plays go point by point with a video that you could sync up to what he's saying. I mean, it's just... And you think about how quickly that information is going by him and how hard it would be to...

And basically, uh, LeBron has this extraordinary memory for basketball games. He could talk about a game that he played in long ago and describe plays in that game, and the plays go point by point with a video that you could sync up to what he's saying. I mean, it's just... And you think about how quickly that information is going by him and how hard it would be to...

construct some kind of a detailed memory from it but the guy has studied the game and played the game for so long what seems like this incredibly confusing array of people running around at super high speeds and all of this stuff happening he's able to just grab it and put it in a little compartment because he's already seen it before basically and He's not even looking at what's happening now.

construct some kind of a detailed memory from it but the guy has studied the game and played the game for so long what seems like this incredibly confusing array of people running around at super high speeds and all of this stuff happening he's able to just grab it and put it in a little compartment because he's already seen it before basically and He's not even looking at what's happening now.

construct some kind of a detailed memory from it but the guy has studied the game and played the game for so long what seems like this incredibly confusing array of people running around at super high speeds and all of this stuff happening he's able to just grab it and put it in a little compartment because he's already seen it before basically and He's not even looking at what's happening now.

He's looking at what's going to happen 30 seconds ahead, a minute ahead. He's looking at where the ball is going and anticipating three plays ahead. It's that expertise that really gives him this extraordinary ability to remember in detail. And that's a case where it's not about remembering more in the sense of just remembering everything willy-nilly.

He's looking at what's going to happen 30 seconds ahead, a minute ahead. He's looking at where the ball is going and anticipating three plays ahead. It's that expertise that really gives him this extraordinary ability to remember in detail. And that's a case where it's not about remembering more in the sense of just remembering everything willy-nilly.

He's looking at what's going to happen 30 seconds ahead, a minute ahead. He's looking at where the ball is going and anticipating three plays ahead. It's that expertise that really gives him this extraordinary ability to remember in detail. And that's a case where it's not about remembering more in the sense of just remembering everything willy-nilly.

It's about remembering better in the sense of being able to grab the patterns, the information that you need, and being able to pull it out as quickly as possible.

It's about remembering better in the sense of being able to grab the patterns, the information that you need, and being able to pull it out as quickly as possible.

It's about remembering better in the sense of being able to grab the patterns, the information that you need, and being able to pull it out as quickly as possible.

Oh, that's such a big, big question. I think the way human memory works is it's often spontaneous in the sense that we will, you know, in our research that's actually happening right now, but in some of our very recent research, we've found that we're not actually encoding rich memories all the time because much of the world is very predictable.

Oh, that's such a big, big question. I think the way human memory works is it's often spontaneous in the sense that we will, you know, in our research that's actually happening right now, but in some of our very recent research, we've found that we're not actually encoding rich memories all the time because much of the world is very predictable.

Oh, that's such a big, big question. I think the way human memory works is it's often spontaneous in the sense that we will, you know, in our research that's actually happening right now, but in some of our very recent research, we've found that we're not actually encoding rich memories all the time because much of the world is very predictable.

And in fact, it looks like our brains are really kind of forming these detailed snapshot memories at these moments when we're struggling a little bit because something's new or surprising. Or at times where this is just motivationally very important to us. We just achieved a goal of some kind, right? And so... These moments are kind of these snapshots that we have.